Access to primary health care in Resolute Bay, Nunavut

Health Council of Canada: Taking the Pulse

Even for Cathy Rose, Nursing Supervisor at the Resolute Bay Health Centre, minus 50 degrees Celsius is alarmingly cold. "We have every space heater going today (early February 2009) and the wind is coming in through all the cracks," she says. This is not a day to get out and exercise for the community members who are living with diabetes, although many of them do try to exercise on a daily basis, according to Cathy.

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